We all have a setting in our e-mail that lets us filter out mail we don't want to receive. Often, I get e-mail from sites that have amazing photos so I keep the address even though there will be "stuff" I don't want.
Several months ago a series of photos came through that were labeled as "cute". When I saw them I thought just the opposite, they were not cute, they were photos of small children that appeared to be very frightened and all were crying. Every child was also naked from mid-chest up.
I fired off an e-mail to the local FBI child abuse link and waited. At first I heard nothing and decided it did not sound bad enough for them to worry about. Months went by and I did wonder and then, just one week ago, a message on my voice mail from the local office.
I was asked to send the link with the photos which I did, and I told the gentleman I spoke with that even if these were innocent, I would like to get my hands on the photographer that would post photos like this to the entire world and think they were cute.
It's been only one week since the phone call and on our local news last evening there was a story of breaking events, a major child porno ring web site had been exposed and hundreds of photos had been posted on the site from computers in our state.
As Joe Leaphorn often states ( from the Tony Hillerman novels ), "there is no such thing as coincidence." I sure hope I had something to do with finding this ring.
If you ever come across something in your e-mail or on the web that you think is very unacceptable, do not be worried about contacting the authorities.
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